{"id":148,"date":"2007-10-10T11:21:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/2007\/10\/10\/htop-unix-top-on-steroids\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:21:47","slug":"htop-unix-top-on-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/?p=148","title":{"rendered":"htop &#8211; Unix top on steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker of mine showed me a small utility he read about on <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/featured-linux-download\/manage-processes-with-htop-308995.php\" target=\"_http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/featured-linux-download\/manage-processes-with-htop-308995.php\" title=\"LifeHacker (Manage Processes with htop)\">LifeHacker (Manage Processes with htop)<\/a> this morning. I checked out the <a href=\"http:\/\/htop.sourceforge.net\" target=\"_http:\/\/htop.sourceforge.net\" title=\"htop Project Site on Sourceforge\">htop project site<\/a> and quickly downloaded the source rpm and built the package and installed it on one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/\" target=\"_http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/\" title=\"Fedora Linux Project Website\">Fedora<\/a> boxes at home.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how htop compares to top, taken straight from the htop project site:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Comparison between htop and top<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In &#8216;htop&#8217; you can scroll the list vertically and horizontally   to see all processes and complete command lines.<\/li>\n<li>In &#8216;top&#8217; you are subject to a delay for each unassigned   key you press (especially annoying when multi-key escape   sequences are triggered by accident).<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;htop&#8217; starts faster (&#8216;top&#8217; seems to collect data for a while   before displaying anything).<\/li>\n<li>In &#8216;htop&#8217; you don&#8217;t need to type the process number to   kill a process, in &#8216;top&#8217; you do.<\/li>\n<li>In &#8216;htop&#8217; you don&#8217;t need to type the process number or   the priority value to renice a process, in &#8216;top&#8217; you do.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;htop&#8217; supports mouse operation, &#8216;top&#8217; doesn&#8217;t<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;top&#8217; is older, hence, more used and tested.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All I can say is I&#8217;ll probably not use &#8216;top&#8217; anymore. It&#8217;s htop for me going forward&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/htop.sourceforge.net\" target=\"_http:\/\/htop.sourceforge.net\" title=\"htop Project Site on Sourceforge\">htop &#8211; an interactive process viewer for Linux &#8211; http:\/\/htop.sourceforge.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker of mine showed me a small utility he read about on LifeHacker (Manage Processes with htop) this morning. I checked out the htop project site and quickly downloaded the source rpm and built the package and installed it on one of my Fedora boxes at home. Here&#8217;s how htop compares to top, taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookmarks","category-geek-stuff","category-linux"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA6RZ-2o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thehouse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}